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E.J. Lefavour

Natura Naturans Meets Natura Digitalis
(Photography Exhibition)

Opening Reception – Sunday, October 4th, 2:00-4:00 PM
Rockport Art Association, 12 Main Street, Rockport MA 01966

This exhibition is a 2-person show of works by photographers Joe Reardon and digital artist Otto Laske which presents two different, but complementary, interpretations of Nature: what our eye sees more or less directly and what the mind imagines. These two interpretations are inter-related since the eye also imagines just as the mind sees.

In both artists’ work, the photographic or algorithmic capturing of nature produces endless varieties of fauna that turn into imaginary ones, and appear simultaneously as real and allegorical. While Reardon’s shapes represent real objects, their exquisite precision instantly turns them into allegories. While Laske’s shapes often have the energy of drawings, they are close enough to natural phenomena to evoke energies we sense in observing natural growth.

The show uses digital technology in the broadest sense in a way adapted to each artist’s predilections. It expands the notion of Nature beyond what can be seen, close by or at a distance, into what can be viscerally felt and experienced even with eyes closed.

This small group show will be on view through October 18^th. The RAA is open Monday – Sunday and is free to the public.

The Rockport Art Association (RAA) is one of the oldest and most active art organizations in the country. The Association has a long and distinguished history that has spanned 94 years. Each year the RAA welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world. The RAA continues to be one of Cape Ann’s most prominent cultural beacons. Since its founding, the Association has steadily increased in size and currently includes approximately 250 artist & photography members, and hundreds of contributing members. By promoting year-round programs of classes, lectures, demonstrations, exhibitions and community outreach, as well as an impressive museum collection, the RAA remains dedicated to its mission of making fine art appreciation accessible to all. rockportartassn.org/

Good Harbor Beach
10/01/2015 12:51pm

October, for reals.

Time to get your Autumn on, my friends.

Pick #1   Harvest Fest at Mile Marker One

Always a great event…be sure to stop by!  Thanks to Cape Ann’s Marina Resort and Mile Marker One for hosting this morsel of perfect fall family fun.

http://www.milemarkerone.com/entertainment.htm

Pick #2  Topsfield Fair

While I know that there exist families who do not enjoy the Topsfield Fair for reasons of their own, we have always loved the fair!

Find the calendar of events within this link and see all that the fair really has to offer!!

http://www.topsfieldfair.org/

Pick #3  Family Day at the Bird Banding Station

Like many other local Audubon locations, Joppa Flats offers so many wonderful opportunities for families with young children.  This Sunday is no different.

http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/program-catalog#program:program_code=40911

Registration is required in advance.

Family Day at the Bird Banding Station

Sponsored by Joppa Flats Education Center

Sun, Oct 04, 2015 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Location:

Bird Banding Station, Plum Island

Audience:

All (suitable for children 6 – 18 years)

Members:

Adult $8.00, Child $5.00

Nonmembers:

Adult $10.00, Child $6.00

Nonmembers can join today during checkout and take immediate advantage of member prices.

Come for an exciting visit to the Joppa Flats Bird Banding Station on the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. See Mass Audubon scientists capture, measure, weigh, examine, and release migrant songbirds. Learn about migration, habitat use, and scientific research at a real field station. The station operates only during the height of migration in spring (April and May) and fall (September and October). Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more family friendly activities, please see our friends at North Shore Kid

Hi Joey,
The Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church is hosting a two day Open House on Saturday, October 3 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon and Sunday, October 4 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM to showcase its children’s and youth’s programs.
All are invited to stop in and visit. Rose Sheehan, Director of Religious Exploration will be on hand to chat and answer questions. There will be a make and take craft activity. Light refreshments will be available.
This event will take place on the church’s lower level. Entrance is at 10 Church Street, Gloucester, MA. The church is handicapped accessible.

Thanks!

“Our Town” by Thornton Wilder opens Thursday at 7:30 at Shalin Lui in Rockport. Produced by Theatre in The Pines, the cast includes many from Rockport and Gloucester. Performances are Oct 1, 2 & 3 at 7:30 and a Sunday matinee on Oct. 4. Admission is $20. Tickets available at the door or at Toad Hall, The Bookstore and Rockport Music at Shalin Lui.  Don’t miss this classic American play of
New England life.

Backyard Growers cordially invites you to the Grand Opening of the Riverdale Park Community Garden

Help us celebrate as Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken cuts the ribbon to our new garden! Learn about Backyard Growers’ Community Garden program, tour the new garden space, and plant some fall seeds.

Date: Wednesday, October 14 (rain or shine)

Time: 8:30-9:15 AM

Place: Riverdale Park, Veterans Way 

(off of Washington Street after the rotary—see map below)

To RSVP or for more information: Contact Lara Lepionka, 

Executive Director at lara@backyardgrowers.org or 978-317-8025

The Riverdale Park Community Garden is made possible with funding from the

City of Gloucester and private foundations. Garden programming and support

is provided by our MassLIFT AmeriCorps service member.

Thank you to the Gloucester Housing Authority for partnering with us on this project.

Joey–I was pleased (thrilled actually) to learn today that the photo I submitted to the Gloucester Rotary Calendar project was selected!  I learned about the contest through GMG and was encouraged to send a photo along even though I am daily humbled by the photographic geniuses you have on hand.

I had just submitted the photo when I listened to podcast 147 where you mentioned a fall scene would probably have a good chance of being selected.  Mine is “Fall Reflection at Halibut Point”, so I guess you were right again!

So, thanks for the encouragement and we hope to stop by the dock next week for my husband Jim’s shirt.  I think we are arriving just in time for a storm.  Thanks again.  Pat D

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One Text, Two Decisions: It’s Your Choice A new public service announcement about teen marijuana use

PSA FLYER youth 10.8.15

Please Join The Healthy Gloucester Collaborative Gloucester Youth Council

Where: Rose Baker Senior Center

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2015

Time: 6:00 – 7:00 pm Refreshments will be served

You Can Afford College (seminar) at Manchester Athletic Club

September 25, 2015 by Seacoast Nursing & Rehab

Friends of Seacoast Road Race

The Friends of Seacoast next major Fundraiser will be “The Seacoast 10K Road Race.” Enjoy beautiful foliage while running through picturesque Magnolia! The 12th Annual Seacoast Road Race will be held on Sunday, October 25. The race will begin at Stage Fort Park at 9 a.m. and will end at Stage Fort Park. All runners have a chance to win awards and cash prizes. Sponsored by BankGloucester, Friends of Seacoast, and Seacoast Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Come and join us while we run for a great cause. All proceeds benefit the residents of the Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Registration: Online Registration is available by downloading the registration form by following the link for online registration at Bank.Gloucester’s website or http://www.NorthShoreTimingOnline.com Applications are also available at: Seacoast, 292 Washington Street, Gloucester Race Day Registration: Race Day registration is at the Start Line tent at Stage Fort Park at 7:30 a.m. Race begins at 9:00 a.m. Race Fee: $25. pre-registration; $30 day of race Directions: 128 North to Exit 14, Gloucester. Take right off exit and follow Essex Avenue for approximately four miles. Take right at Western Avenue, then left onto Hough Avenue. Stage Fort Park is located on left. For further information, please call JD Mac Eachern 978-675-7490.

It never ceases to amaze me, the beautiful spots on Cape Ann that you could pass by regularly and never know they were there.  Thanks Ann Kennedy for taking me on such a wonderful walking adventure.

E.J. Lefavour

Insights On Site at the White-Ellery House

Life Observed – A one-day installation by Sarah Wonson

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Life Observed, an installation by Sarah Wonson on Saturday, October 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This program will take place at the Cape Ann Museum’s historic White-Ellery House (1710) and is free and open to the public as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays. The House is located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester at the Route 128 Grant Circle Rotary; parking is available off Poplar Street in the field behind the house.

In Life Observed, Wonson’s interests in making art converge with her reverence for Colonial-period architecture. Returning home to Gloucester in 2011 after living away for eight years, Wonson began to take notice of the wealth of beautiful colonial-era homes around Cape Ann; each one with its own character, friendly, foreboding, comical, etc. “I wanted to learn more about Colonial period buildings,” states Wonson, “so I began visual research in The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs.” These pamphlets, filled with atmospheric, shadowy black and white photographs of historic houses, captivated Wonson, and she has been drawing and contemplating them since. “[While] the formal aspects of the structures interested me initially, over time my focus has shifted towards the relationship between where we dwell and the human imprint we leave behind. The home is not just a building, it is a place where we store our experience.”

6^th Annual Charles Olson Lecture: Michael McClure

Lecture and Readings by Michael McClure

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present, in collaboration with the Gloucester Writers Center and Charles Olson Society, author Michael McClure as this year’s Charles Olson Annual lecturer. The 6^th annual lecture will be held Saturday, October 3 at 1:00p.m. This program is free and open to the public. A book singing will follow. McClure’s book can be purchased at The Bookstore of Gloucester. For more information please email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455 x10.

In 1954, poet Robert Duncan introduced Michael McClure to poet Charles Olson’s influential manifesto, Projective Verse. McClure’s lecture, entitled The Greatness of Olson will include a discussion about his relationship to Olson, as well as readings from McClure’s most recent work.

The recently renovated Cape Ann Museum celebrates the art, history and culture of Cape Ann – a region with a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial and artistic achievement. The Museum’s collections include fine art from the 19th century to the present, artifacts from the fishing and maritime and granite quarrying industries, textiles, furniture, a library/archives, and two historic houses. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.

The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 adults, $8.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.

Autumn in Art @ Central Street Gallery

Meet our award winning artists
Autumn in art – Opening reception: Saturday, October 3, 5 – 8pm
Open Friday and Saturday evenings

We are happy to present a great selection of recent works inspired by the fall season. Our Gallery director and associates are available and ready to assist you with your selections. Start your collection with us.
Refreshments will be served so please join us, and bring some friends!
Show runs through Sept28, 2015

Member News

We are very proud to announce recent accomplishments by several members.

Richard Giedd: Painting Essex Winter was juried into The Guild of Boston Artists 2015 Regional Exhibition. Show runs Oct 3-27.

William Fusco: Juried into North Shore Art Assoc. as an artist member

Barbara Levine: Juried into the Concord Art Assoc. 16th Roddy exhibition for her painting Spring

Grace Vasta-Carr: Awarded the Chipp Davis Wells and Amee B Davis Memorial Award for excellence in painting at the Rockport Art Assoc. for her painting Hollyhocks

Phyllis Feld The Way of Space In The Landscape solo show at the Northshore Art Association Sept 3 thru 26

Enhance your life with art…